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Take Me Home, Country Roads · Neebs Gaming

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove G -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGCQJNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me Home, Country Roads on drums

143 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-98, snare through bars 99-122, hi-hat through bars 123-134, kick and crashes through bars 135-139 and snare through bars 140-143.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 59-65, and 6 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Take Me Home, Country Roads -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 42 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-106 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 104-127 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take Me Home, Country Roads?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Take Me Home, Country Roads hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Take Me Home, Country Roads?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 42 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED